“So what do we do about it? Is the question. (Essentially.)
It goes to Jay Inslee. He’s running a campaign focussed on climate change. We need to pass a 100% clean electrical grid bill, which he’s passed in Washington state. The most important thing is, which candidate is going to say climate change is the number one issue? Inslee says. He’s the only one, he answers.
O’Rourke is asked how you tell someone they need to start driving an electric car.
“Bring everyone in to the decisions and solutions that we face,” he says. He will mobilize $5tn to free the US from fossil fuels. (O’Rourke’s plan would cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, according to O’Rourke.)
Castro says the first thing he’d do as president is sign an order re-committing the US to the Paris Accord.
Tim Ryan’s up. How do we pay for carbon mitigation? Never mind that. Ryan wants to talk about “real politics”. The Democratic party has a perception problem, he says, with working people. We’ve got to change the party from being coastal, and elitist, and Ivy League.www.theguardian.com/...
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(13 minutes were devoted the the Climate Emergency)
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Before the debate, Governor Inslee had estimated that he would have eight minutes. He got the least time of any candidate—less than two minutes, according to the MiamiHerald.www.dailykos.com/...